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trentcrimminallybeautiful · 11 months

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i have this silly little undeveloped au in my brain that's just like. tedependent but it's the sarah jane adventures. sort of. not literally in the doctor who universe necessarily but like. local intrepid reporter trent crimm investigating weird shit except the local neighborhood kids will not leave him alone.

i have so many thoughts about this but none of them are coherent enough for a proper fic i think:

i just think trent being good with kids, generally. go mentor figure trent! (what this has nothing to do with my thesis what do you mean)

trent, like sarah jane pre-series, having a sort of reputation in the neighborhood (or in general, since i'm also incorporating his actual canon vibes/story) as to being standoffish, aloof, cold, etc., and generally anti-social, keeping to himself. and as the kids keep dragging him into things kicking and screaming he might also be dragged kicking and screaming into a community <3

if his daughter is essentially luke does that mean he adopted her under Strange Alien-Related Circumstances? absolutely it does, yes.

see i've got two great ideas for ted/tedependent. on one hand, although in the context of SJA/nuwho i'm not so much one for sarah jane and the doctor as a Thing, ted playing the role of like. someone from trent's Mysterious Past who he won't talk about who set him on this path? someone who was kind and wonderful and changed his life but then--at least it feels like to him--abandoned him? someone who made him a better person--from doing whatever journalism he used to do to this--someone who he's still kinda in love with... but trent can no longer even really talk to......until he shows up again? that's some good shit, not gonna lie. although i'm jimmying that into a happy ending somehow, goddamn it.

ALTERNATIVELY. henry being one of the Neighborhood Kids (as if we're using "canon" kids, we've got limited options) and ted being an oblivious parent. trent is trying to get these kids to STOP POKING INTO DANGEROUS ALIEN NONSENSE PLEASE THIS IS HIS JOB PLEASE STOP BREAKING INTO HIS HOUSE but they're stubborn and smart and they may or may not have saved his life once or twice and oh GOD THIS IS SO IRRESPONSIBLE but he can't just TELL THESE RANDOM NEIGHBORS about ALIENS. but like anyway this just painful secret identity-esque nonsense where ted knows henry's taken a shine to that nice journalist down the street and his daughter but does NOT know that henry is getting into Shenanigans(TM). this could lead into all sorts of drama about, you know, his kid being in danger... or, alternatively, ted has worked with some unit/torchwood-esque place before and is like OHH you know what? this explains that time i thought i heard you speaking an alien language. cool, cool. and trents like. .....WHAT

etc. i'm not wording this well but i think you get the idea.

if you really really wanted to make it complicated you could do both, considering the doctor's whole thing--either a fob watch or a regeneration--but honestly, i don't want to do that, so i won't

some of the adults do definitely get involved though. keeley either clocks that shit right away or thinks she's clocked it but she's actually clocked something entirely different. she's like i know you're mi6 babe ;) and he. is not. meanwhile roy having ten freakouts in a row and then being like nvm i'm fine with this. (is not fine with this, but will be eventually). jamies like yeah aliens. everyone knows about those. and they're like what?? no they dont?? and so on.

is beard an alien? genuinely no one's sure. he's not telling.

HOLD ON can i give trent k-9???? can trent crimm get a robot dog?????? yes please i think he deserves a robot dog

also see the trickster episodes? bet you could do something real fucked up with those.

i feel like i had more when i started this post but i don't remember

this not well thought out at all and i have no idea where everyone would fit in

anyway my point is. trent crimm, intrepid journalist, running around trying to stop alien shenanigans while Those Meddling Kids keep following him around. trent crimm doin a little Breaking And Entering. scooby doo shit. and he has such an interesting mix of seeming suave and badass and then immediately doing something embarrassing. trent crimm--via shenanigans and also Those Meddling Kids dragging him into their lives (aka he tries to keep his distance SO badly and only is involved when dangerous shit is going down but like then it's all. child knocking on his door like IT'S AN EMERGENCY OPEN UP and hes like WHAT WHAT IS IT and theyre like can you help me with my homework :( and hes like. fuck. yeah fine what do you want help with. (some subjects he's very helpful on others he's VERY not) until they're like okay but you're coming to this bbq right. and he's like? no? and they're like you're coming to this bbq right. and so on) ANYWAY the point is they keep dragging him into their lives and now oops! trent actually knows his neighbors and has to go through the mortifying ordeal of being known. but that also means that when he gets badly hurt or sick he's used to the empty hospital room but now he actually gets people showing up and forcing baked goods on him and shit and i'm just feeling a lot of things about this extremely hypothetical au based on my already existing feelings about trent gaining a community in s3/post-canon,

wait does this mean trent gets sonic lipstick? HELL YEAH IT DOES

#well actually i have a LOT of silly little underdeveloped aus in my brain but #anyway. crack edition: the football players are still football players.#trent crimm wondering why he's trying to stop an alien spaceship from blowing up the block #with the help of a team of famous football players. roy kent just punched a raxicoricofallapatorian.#trent on the couch with a black eye bc they had a run in with a sontaron or some shit: [holding up peas to his face] okay.#so jamie tartt is here for some reason. and also the neighbor i have a crush on. and also his son. and also colin. this is fine #that's all a joke obviously but the imagery has me cackling #anyway this also made me think of trent as river song which doesnt work at first glance but then when i think about some PARTICULAR things #makes me cry. like. just. meeting him in reverse.#it's s3 trent--dorky and open and softer but sadder--that he meets first #and by the time he reaches the end he sees how far he's come out of his shell and how unhappy he was #but then they have their moment...#sorry that's also barely coherent and definitely wouldn't make a cohesive au without a lot more work im just spinning thoughts in my brain #trent crimm #tedependent #tedtrent #ted x trent #sja au #tvtcau #the first one before i even had that lol

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maris-medley · 6 months

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Carmen Sandiego Oc Infodump (I’m bored and brainrotting)

Okay so like… for context this is an oc I insert into basically everything because I’ve had her for such a long time and she is like a child to me LMAOAOAO so I’m saying that rn to avoid any possible confusion since she’s the main oc I use for a completely separate AU that has to do with FNAF lol.

But dw I will be labeling the posts accordingly so you know which versions I’m talking about. :)

ANYWAYS UHHH REWATCHED CARMEN SANDIEGO. GOT SAD. BRAIN COPED BY INSERTING MY OC INTO THE SERIES AS AN AU FOR SOME REASON SOOOO ENJOY THIS RANDOM INFO…

Okay sooo first off her name is River O’Callaghan, and she’s just a little fucked up, just a little silly. So naturally she is more on the VILE side of things and as such would not get along with Carmen at all despite how similar she is (in some ways) to Carmen’s childhood self LMAO

River actually would’ve been raised very well (if not for trauma) because her parents were actually incredibly good people. I wouldn’t call them completely Lawful Good, but they were very pleasant, very kind.

Unfortunately, River’s parents sort of dieded so, similar to Carmen, she didn’t have anywhere to go really as a child. Except the difference here was that she was found by Maelstrom and Bellum while the two were on a little faculty field trip (and Shadowsan has already abandoned VILE by this point btw so dw about him.. yet).

But unlike with Carmen, they didn’t automatically take her in, and for obvious reasoning; they were skeptical. They didn’t want a repeat of the whole “Black Sheep” situation. So faculty kinda puzzled over what to do with her for a minute there.

Coach Brunt was ESPECIALLY hesitant because—despite her evilness—she was very heartbroken over losing “Black Sheep” to “Carmen” so she really did not wanna end up doing the same thing all over again.

But at the same time, faculty knew that letting a child who’d managed to discover them wander off back into society could be potentially bad for them later down the line. They considered erasing her memories, but considering how young she was (about 8 or 9), they were concerned about what effects Bellum’s device could have on such an underdeveloped mind. And they weren’t just gonna fuck up some kid’s brain when she didn’t even really understand what was going on LMAO

So yeah they were kinda stuck. That is, until Maelstrom proposed that they perform a few tests to see just how “loyal” and “evil” she was. He hypothesized that doing so would save them any potential trouble that could come from keeping her around, and that this was likely their biggest mistake with “Black Sheep”.

So they do the tests, and Countess Cleo and Coach Brunt end up having to make sure they don’t get too out of hand and/or damaging. Because although they wouldn’t really care when it came to regular VILE operatives, they deemed this a “special case” of sorts for whatever reason.

During this strange series of tests (which there were a LOT of), River was under fairly light surveillance from Bellum (because they wanted her to have the illusion of privacy to make sure all of her actions when she thought they weren’t around were genuine). Cleo would also have clothing tailor-made for her because she didn’t really have any. And it was also during these tests that Maelstrom finally found out that her parents weren’t “around” anymore, which he could tell by the way she said it that she didn’t fully understand the gravity of a situation like that.

Coach Brunt found out about this pretty quickly, as she’d insisted on sitting in on every single one of those tests, and out of slight guilt she ended up teaching River a bit about self-defense for the remainder of her “testing period”.

River actually very much enjoyed their company btw. :)

Anyways, faculty eventually came to the conclusion that River really doesn’t know or care about the concept of “good” or “evil” yet (which they kind of should’ve been able to guess already but they were paranoid and wanted to be sure). So in the end, they decided the best thing to do would be to make her aware of their evil ideologies right away; make it known to her that they’re very much aware that they steal for selfish reasons, and that they are not good people. Of course, they never phrased it exactly like that, but thanks to this new approach, River was a LOT more aware of what was going on with the Isle of VILE than Carmen ever was at her age.

And thanks to HOW she was receiving that information (and also just her general nature from the beginning tbh), River was completely fine with this. She liked being evil. So her time spent on the island wasn’t of ignorance.

But yeah, with all the backstory stuff out of the way, let’s get to her general personality and theme! And also a little further into her relationships with the most well-known members of VILE!!

First off, again, she’s fairly similar to how Carmen was in childhood, except she STAYED that way; she stayed pretty nonchalant, pretty prankster-ish, and did just about whatever she wanted within the surprisingly fair limits the faculty set. But this was really all only because they made sure from the start that she wouldn’t betray them. And even then, Bellum still monitored her here and there, just to be safe.

River’s three biggest passions are music, literature, and witchcraft! She remembers a lot of the spells and rituals she learned as a kid, and will occasionally plead Maelstrom and/or Bellum to let her get more books on the subject to add to her ever-growing collection (but also just books in general, as she’s a huge reader). And then there’s music because she loves to sing and write songs despite getting rather embarrassed about doing so in front of others.

Sirens (as in the mythological sirens) become her overall theme when she inevitably becomes a VILE operative, but we’ll get into that more in a later post lol.

Maelstrom and Bellum are the two that tend to dote on River the most (Coach Brunt coming in very close second though Cleo isn’t too distant third). Maelstrom isn’t really the best at showing affection, given his character, but he offers her more praise than pretty much any other operative, and sometimes she’ll try to give him a hug to which he’ll respond by awkwardly patting her shoulder because he doesn’t really… get it LMAO

Bellum also gets awkward with hugs, but she’s obviously much better at showing River affection than Maelstrom. Think of those moments where she’s watching cat videos, or when she refers to Crackle as her “dear boy”. She refers to River as her “dear girl”. Yeah.

Honestly the only faculty member who doesn’t get weird about hugs is Coach Brunt, who welcomes them just about every time they’re offered to her lol. She’s admittedly still slightly wary about River due to anxiety even though she trusts her, but she’ll eventually be able to fully push through that. She treats her pretty similarly to how she treated “Black Sheep”, other than that.

As for Countess Cleo, she’s no doubt also extremely unfamiliar with the whole “affection” thing. But because River does not in fact throw water balloons at Cookie (they actually told her to stay away from Cookie out of paranoia), or perform any “messy” pranks, she doesn’t really mind River’s cheekiness nearly as much. She also enjoyed playing dress-up with her during her “testing period” so they actually really bonded during that time, and will indulge in classics and art history and stuff like that, which is part of why reading and culture became one of her big side-interests. :3

Maelstrom and Bellum are also the reason why she’s so well-read lmao.

And Brunt’s the reason why she can put up a fight. 😌

Now I weirdly wanna discuss a few of the operatives (Le Chèvre, El Topo, and Tigress).

Le Chèvre and El Topo would also very much be like parents to River, and would likely beg the faculty to let them take her on capers with them to no avail lmao. Not to say that River never gets to go on any capers. In fact, the faculty take her on some whenever they can be there to supervise! It’s just that they are protective of their new evil daughter and do not trust anyone else to watch over her while traveling.

At first, El Topo is actually the only one with no real suspicions about River, because she taught herself puppy eyes and he couldn’t find it in him to be skeptical when she looked at them like that LMAO

However, Le Chèvre and Tigress were very iffy about the faculty raising a kid on the Isle of VILE again. Luckily though, they both eventually warmed up to her. Tigress warmed up faster than she would ever let herself admit, so she would often act annoyed by River around others and then treat her like a little sister she never had in private. Tigress stopped the charade after a while, but she didn’t realize that it was kind of obvious she was faking her irritation to begin with.

But yeah River is a silly little guy, completely unapologetically evil and loves her evil little family!! I’m getting sleepy so idk what else to say for now, but feel free to send asks if you’ve got any further questions!!

Also Carmen and River absolutely despise each other once River graduates crime school and starts on her silly little heists. It’s like a sibling rivalry but genuinely hostile LMFAO

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